The man stepping into 6’8” James Comey’s shoes boasts a low profile and two decades of FBI service — not to mention a couple controversies of his own.

Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe — who became top dog after President Trump fired Comey Tuesday — launched his Bureau career in 1996 tackling organized crime in the New York field office.

McCabe, 49, rose through the ranks to serve in the FBI’s counterterrorism division, national security branch and Washington field office, with Comey promoting him to deputy director in early 2016.

“My focus is on the inside (of the FBI) and all the work we do that is not talked about in the newspaper, on CNN, on the Hill,” he told the LA Times in a profile last spring. “My focus is on the stuff we have done for 100 years and do every day that people never hear about.”

Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe started at the FBI in 1996.

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His chief focus, he told the paper, is on eliminating the threat of ISIS and extremist-inspired terror groups.

“That is the scariest thing for me right now,” he said. “It’s the broadening and intensity of the terrorism threat, the crowd-sourcing of terrorism, the flood of propaganda, the enormous number of folks who have become swept up in that propaganda.”

But McCabe’s tenure as deputy director has had its share of partisan strife — most notably in October when it came to light his pediatrician wife, Jill McCabe, had landed a $467,500 donation for her 2015 state Senate run from a PAC tied to Virginia governor and longtime Clinton ally Terry McAuliffe.

Jill McCabe wound up losing that election — but news of the donation last fall prompted outcry from Republicans, who pointed out her husband was later tasked with overseeing the FBI probe into Clinton’s use of a private email server.

Trump, sans his usual colorful commentary, shared the Wall Street Journal’s story on McAuliffe’s donations on Oct. 23. But he later harnessed it into a stump-speech attack line through multiple late-October campaign stops.

“So the head of the FBI who was investigating her, has a wife who wants to run for some office. And they give her not $1,000, not $2,000, not $20,000, not $30,000 — $675,000,” Trump said Oct. 25 in Tallahassee. “That’s big money, which was a big percentage of the money she raised, $675,000 to run for office.

Now-former FBI Director James Comey got the pink slip on Tuesday.

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“Now this is the man that is leading the investigation into her. His wife gets $675,000, essentially from Hillary Clinton. Folks, what’s going on here? What’s going on? Our country is rigged, it's crooked, and it’s broken. I’m telling you, what’s going on?”

Andrew McCabe again found the national spotlight in February after he reportedly spoke with White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus about the FBI’s probe into Russian influence in the U.S. election.

McCabe on Feb. 15 told Priebus a New York Times story detailing Trump campaign aides’ alleged contacts with Russian officials prior to the election was not true, according to multiple reports — possibly violating Justice Department rules that govern contact between the White House and FBI officials.